Demographics
41% have a foreign background. 30% of the population has been born abroad and another 11% of the population was Swedish-born with foreign-born parents. The Middle East, South-East Asia, Ex-Yugoslavia and Denmark are the main sources of migration.
Malmö has also the highest percentage of Muslims in Scandinavia, with (25%) or 75,000 people originating from Islamic countries.
After 1971, Malmö had 265,000 inhabitants, the population then dropped to 229,000 by 1985. It then began to rise again, and had passed the previous record by the 1 January 2003 census, when it had 265,481 inhabitants.
40.79% (or 123,531 people) of Malmö's inhabitants have a migration background. 30.45% (92,228) are born abroad and 10.34% (31 303) are born to 2 foreign-born parents
As of 2009, Malmö had the fourth-highest proportion of foreign-born residents of any municipality in Sweden. In addition to these figures,14.1% of the population are foreign nationals.
The 10 largest groups of immigrants have arrived from:
- Iraq (9,940)
- Denmark (8,972)
- FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) (8,426)
- Poland (7,053)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (5,969)
- Lebanon (3,780)
- Iran (3,375)
- Turkey ( 2,110)
- Hungary (2,038)
- Romania (2,014)
There were 171 different nationalities represented in Malmö in 2007.
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